1979 Nobel peace prize: Mother Teresa of Calcutta's acceptance speech
Need a quick spiritual lift? Let these quotes tickle your soul...
1. "Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn." --Archbishop Fulton Sheen
2. "If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable." --St Thomas More
3. "Your Holiness, how many people work in the Vatican?" Pope John XXIII's reply, "about half of them."
4. On Prudence, "never trust a dog to watch your food." --St Patrick
These quotes belong to "Father Brown" author CK Chesterton, as seen on Britbox cable TV.
5. On progress, "I’ve searched all city-parks and found no statues of committees."
6. On complex bureaucracy, "the poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
7. On frenemies, "the Bible tells us to love our neighbors & enemies; probably because they are the same."
8. Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
9. To have "a right" to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it."
Prayer
Forever thanks, be to the Inventor of infinite humor.
May we use it prudently, gracefully and with all the dignity
of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, St Patrick and Sir Thomas More.
Help us to be judged as having a loving and cheerful disposition.
This we ask in the name of the Holy Trinity.
Mother Mary, pray for us.
Jesus, we trust in you!
Amen
Sources:
7 Humorous quotes from Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton | aletia.org
Some of the funniest things that saints have said | aletia.org